Much Love.
I just always thought this verse was talking about a prostitute. I was reading this the other night after listening to Pastor Chris's "4 Women" ( http://youtu.be/uRcziOJcyIM ). I've always thought it was a beautiful verse, but I've always felt like there was more to it than what I saw. This time, as I thought and thought, and thought, it started to hit me in a whole new way I had never ever seen. Jesus always speaks in ways that will allow those who want to, especially "good" people, to remain comfortably deceived if they want to. To go on about their lives confident that he was speaking to the people that have the real problems. So here, it was easy for the religious leaders Jesus was speaking to, to understand his message on a surface level. She is an evil, sinful woman. If he could forgive her of all that wrong, which doesn't make sense anyway, then yeah, she'd better be grateful. It's not my fault that I can't appreciate his supposed...